{"id":3355,"date":"2025-10-07T10:55:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T10:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/?p=3355"},"modified":"2025-10-17T00:20:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:20:58","slug":"week-2-refining-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/2025\/10\/07\/week-2-refining-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2 &#8211; Refining My Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By this time, we should have four themes we want to research. And after quite a bit of back and forth, I decided on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tarot &amp; astrology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Childhood diary<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>19th-century opera ballet<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hanahaki disease<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After sharing our themes with the class and discussing ways to research (e.g. going to the library, visiting a museum, etc.), we got into pairs and began deep diving into our chosen topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-79fb870f wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/image-edited-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/image-edited-scaled.png 2560w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/image-edited-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/image-edited-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/image-edited-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/image-edited-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/image-edited-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/image-edited-2048x2048.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"835\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3768-Copy-835x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3768-Copy-835x1024.jpg 835w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3768-Copy-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3768-Copy-768x942.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3768-Copy-1252x1536.jpg 1252w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3768-Copy-1669x2048.jpg 1669w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 835px) 100vw, 835px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Systems<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A system in a game is defined by a group of objects, their properties, behaviours and how these game objects interact with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were given the topic moustaches as an example. Some of the systems in this theme would be: grooming, history, culture, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were then tasked to think about systems in the context of our themes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3769-edited-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3769-edited-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3769-edited-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3769-edited-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3769-edited-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3769-edited-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3769-edited-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Blackout Poetry<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For our last task, we created blackout poetry from articles to summarise the UN sustainability goals. Blackout poetry\/erasure poetry is made by &#8216;blacking out&#8217; words from existing text to highlight single words or certain phrases to create new meaning. We were challenged to make the poems more abstract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Institutions of fear forms violence, conflict, insecurity and threats to the people<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">One deprived of identity often amplify Governments violence, corruption and participation <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Freedom in private and in public, recorded disappearances of human rights and without threaten the foundation of peaceful societies, all countries. Even the world and home.<\/p>\n<cite>Me<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-79fb870f wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"856\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3770-Copy-856x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3770-Copy-856x1024.jpg 856w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3770-Copy-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3770-Copy-768x919.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3770-Copy-1284x1536.jpg 1284w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3770-Copy-1712x2048.jpg 1712w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 856px) 100vw, 856px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"831\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3771-Copy-831x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3771-Copy-831x1024.jpg 831w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3771-Copy-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3771-Copy-768x946.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3771-Copy-1247x1536.jpg 1247w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rp11g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/IMG_3771-Copy-1663x2048.jpg 1663w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 831px) 100vw, 831px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By this time, we should have four themes we want to research. 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